Easter Meditation|Monday

Easter Meditation|Monday

By the late Billy Grahm

READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 15: 11– 21

As we gaze on a confused and frustrated world, this Scripture comes to mind:

“ForsinceinthewisdomofGodtheworldthrough its wisdom
did not know
him, God was please
through the foolishness of what was
preached to save those who believe” (1 Corinthians 1:21). The idea of our world being saved by Christ on the cross was foolishness to the proud and
boastful Corinthians of the Apostle Paul’s time, who
thought that the wisdom of the world was vested in them. And there are many people like them today. But how different it is for
those of us who in simple faith know Christ
and Him crucified. For us, as the apostle wrote,
the cross of Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.

We have been saved by His grace and mercy. We do not deserve it, we did not pay for it, we did not work for it. It has been given to us as a gift. It is by the work of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross—and by His resurrection—that we can claim any right to the great Kingdom that is yet to come.

When others look
at you, do they see
the hope that you have in Christ,
both for this life and for
eternity?